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98.8% disabled students don't get higher education - Volume 2 Issue 17: Disability News and Information Service for India

98.8% disabled students don't get higher education

DNIS News Network - The Union Human Resource Development
Minister Arjun Singh has called for a national seminar next month with top education
bodies to deal with the issue of higher education for disabled students.

After discovering that only 1.2 per cent of students with disabilities had
access to higher education, the Union HRD minister Mr Arjun Singh has called
for a seminar to make efforts to improve the situation.

"The ones who are really disabled are those who cannot understand the
disabled. A seminar in September would deliberate on the issue of improving
access to higher education to the disabled," said Singh. UGC, NCERT, AICTE
and Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghathan, are all expected to be represented at the
seminar.

The news that 98.8 per cent of young disabled people are currently being excluded
from higher education in India, came to light last month, when Javed Abidi,
Executive Director, National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled
People, revealed the results of a comprehensive education survey carried out
by his organisation.

"This shows the dismal state of adherence to the 3 per cent reservation
for disabled students, as mandated by the Persons with Disabilities Act 1995,"
he said. "Though special education is under Social Justice Ministry, it
ideally should have been under the HRD ministry as it (HRD ministry) deals with
the education of all others."